I will try and give a very brief reason as to what happend when the DOS
version on the drive was 3.1 (this is what it was formatted with) vs the
files on the drive (format,fdisk,chkdsk,etc..) were DOS 2.1. One major
difference between DOS 2 and DOS 3 is that under DOS 3 the harddisk when
it is formatted it allocates the disk clusters in sizes of 2048 bytes,
unlike DOS 2 which alocates clusters in sizes of 4096 bytes. The only time
that DOS 3 will allocate 4096 byte clusters is when it is a 10meg drive.
So what you did was to format the drive with 3.x and have it set the
cluster sizes to 2048 bytes, then you reloaded 2.x which believed that a
DOS partition wold contain clusters sized at 4096, and that is why you got
it telling you that the drive was not a DOS partition. Believe it or not
you did not destroy the disk (if there was important data on it), all you
would of have to do is to re-SYS the 3.x DOS back onto the harddisk. Instead
of installing 2.x back on the drive as the OS, what you should have done was
to replace the 2.x commands (format,fdisk,copy,chkdsk,tree,etc..) with
the appropriate 3.x commands, this would have solved your problem. One
last thing, the reason the 2.x commands would not run was due to the fact
that all OS commands have there version included in them, and DOS checks
this when it goes to execute the commands. When it noticed that they were
not the same it halted execution and gave you a message saying ' Incorrect
DOS Version '...
I hope this helps you out...
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Sincearley,
Howard D. Leadmon
Fast Computer Services
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